Samuel rosenblatt



(NE Model.)

S. ROSENBLATT.

TELEPHONE SUPPORT.

No. 362,115. Patented May 3, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

SAMUEL ROSENBLATT, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.-

TELEPHON E-SUPPORT.

QPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,115, dated May 3, 1887.

Application filed March 1-1, 1887. Serial No. 280,823. (No model.)

To all whom) it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL ROSENBLATT, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, haveinvented a new and Improved Telephone- Support, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement upon the telephone-support patented by me February 8, 1887, under No. 357,337. That patent shows an instrument which may be at tached to a wall or other object, and which has a pair of jointed arms carrying a shell or holder adapted to hold the telephone-receiver. Thus the telephone-receiver may be readily brought into any desired position and carrie against the ear.

The present invention relates more particularly to the lower ball-and-socketjoint, the construction of which is simplified, and which is provided with an adjustable bearing for the ball, that maybe tightened up as the joint wears.

The invention consists in the various fea tures of improvement hereinafter more fully pointed out. I

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of my improved telephone-support. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section, partly in side view, of the same.

The letter or represents a shell adapted to embrace a telephone-receiver and connected to an-arm, Z), which is by ball 0 and Socket (1 connected to a rod, 6, carrying ball f. This ball enters a socketed plate, 9, open at its back and having a flange, h, which is screwed upon baseplate i, adapted to be fastened to a wall or other object. From the lower face of the flange h there depends a pair of lugs, j,

between which there is pivoted a lever, k, upon one end of which there bears a set-screw, Z, passing through flange h. The other end of lever 70 supports a cup-shaped bearing-plate, m, which, with its upper or concave side, partly surrounds the ball f.

For the reception of the parts j k m the baseplate i is mortised. The set-screw Zis so adjusted as to hold the bearing-plate m against the ballf, so that the joint though free to turn will be held in any position in which it may be placed. Should the joint work loose a turn on screw Z will swing lever k to tighten the plate at up. If desired, the joints may be packed.

What I claim is- The combination of a jointed telephone-support having ball f, with socketed plate 9, having flange h and lugs j, and with lever k and bearing-plate m, substantially as specified.

SAML. ROSENBLATT.

'Witnesses:

F. v. BRIESEN, HENRY E. ROEDER. 

